SFB 1187 ›Medien der Kooperation‹ an der Universität Siegen

A05 - The Cooperative Creation of User Autonomy in the Context of the Ageing Society

Principal Investigator:

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller

Researchers:

Tanja Ertl, M.A.

Dennis Kirschsieper, Dipl.-Soz.-Wiss.

Associated Researchers:

       Dr. Marén Schorch

Former Researchers:

       Martin Dickel, M.A.

       Katerina Cerna

 

The subproject A05 aims at the ethnographic investigation and participatory design of autonomy-promoting media infrastructures. Research topics are practices of media appropriation by older, non-technical people as well as design practices of technologies to promote the social participation of older people. The starting point of the project is the premise of the socio-technical duality of media infrastructures, which implies a mutual influence of technology and practice.

The subproject investigates and designs prototypical technologies that promote self-empowerment and socio-technical appropriation infrastructures within caring communities. First, this is relevant against the background of the special dynamics of ageing and changing living conditions. In the course of time, ageing processes can correlate with different challenges, which in turn make different types of technical support appear meaningful. Second, the focus of the appropriation of individual media is extended to practices of appropriating a portfolio of possible useful technologies and thus also the question of requirements for the socio-technical embedding into an appropriation and autonomy-promoting appropriation and discourse infrastructure. Third, a look at caring communities enables the ethnographic tracing and socio-technical support of different knowledge carriers in heterogeneous actor ensembles, consisting of those affected (communities), professional forces (carers, consultants) and volunteers.

Within the framework of a comparative study in Germany and Switzerland, with a focus on Swiss caring community initiatives, community-based, participatory research cooperation with interested older citizens and lay and specialist carers will be installed, which will also enable access to "hard-to-reach" persons in sensitive care settings. In principle, the participatory research and design process should be bottom-up and thus closely linked to the needs of the local actors. The choice of technology is made in close coordination with the interests, needs and preferences of the user groups. The implementation of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approaches expands the question of translating and consolidating co-produced research results into sustainable, local community structures, thus allowing the conceptual development of the conditions of co-production of media and appropriation infrastructures between scientific, civic and commercial institutions.

 

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Forthcoming

Hector, Tim, David Waldecker, Niklas Strüver, and Tanja Aal, eds. 2023. Taming Digital Practices: On the Domestication of Data-Driven Technologies. Digital Culture & Society. Thematic Issue, Vol. 9, Issue 1/2023.

2022

Claudia Müller. 2022. “Kommentar: Forschen zu und mit kommerziell verfügbaren digitalen Technologien – Überlegungen aus Sicht der Sozioinformatik zu digitalen Praktiken älterer Menschen”. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie 55: 397–398. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-022-02093-9.
Paluch, Richard, and Claudia Müller. 2022. “That’s Something for Children’: An Ethnographic Study of Attitudes and Practices of Care Attendants and Nursing Home Residents Towards Robotic Pets”. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6: 1-35.

2021

Cerna, Katerina, Richard Paluch, Fabian Bäumer, and Tanja and Claudia Müller Ertl. 2021. “Transformation of HCI co-research with older adults: researchers’ positionality in the COVID-19 pandemic”. Interaction design and Architectures: Designing during and for pandemics, 27-47. http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=10&a=11&link=ToC_50_P.
Struzek, David, Katerina Cerna, Richard Paluch, Sven Bittenbinder, Claudia Müller, Arlind Reuter, Lydia Stamato, Özge Subasi, Foad Hamidi, and John Vines. 2021. “Designing for New Forms of Vulnerability: Exploring transformation and empowerment in times of COVID-19”. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, 5.

2020

Cerna, Katerina und Müller. 2020. “Learning for life: A Workshop Report. International Reports on Socio-Informatics”. In .
Cerna, Katerina und Müller. 2020. “From Design Space to Learning Place: Conceptualization for Meta Design Space for and with Older Adults. In: Learning for life: A Workshop Report. International Reports on Socio-Informatics”. In Learning for life: A Workshop Report. International Reports on Socio-Informatics.
Cerna, Katerina, Martin Dickel, Claudia Müller, Eija Kärnä, Vera Gallistl, Franz Kolland, Verena Reuter, Gerhard Naegele, Roberta Bevilacqua, Heidi Kaspar, and Ulrich Otto. 2020. “Learning for life: Designing for sustainability of tech-learning networks of older adults”. In Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: The International Venue on Practice-centred Computing on the Design of Cooperation Technologies – Workshops, Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies. (accepted). 10.18420/ecscw2020_ws04.
Engelbutzeder, Philip, Katerina Cerna, Dave Randall, Dennis Lawo, Claudia Müller, and Gunnar und Wulf Stevens. 2020. “Investigating the use of digital artifacts in a community project of sustainable food practices: ‘My chili blossoms’”. In Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society, 1-4.

2019

Müller, Claudia. 2019. “Introduction to the Thematic Focus ‘Socio-Informatics’”. Media in Action – Interdisciplinary Journal on Cooperative Media 2018 (1): 9-16. https://www001.zimt.uni-siegen.de/ojs/index.php/mia/article/view/32.
Struzek, D., M. Dickel, D. Randall, and C. Müller. 2019. “How live streaming church services promotes social participation in rural areas”. interactions 27 (1): 64-69. https://doi.org/10.1145/3373263.
Struzek, David, Claudia Müller, and Alexander Boden. 2019. “Development of an Everyday Persuasive App for Movement Motivation for Older Adults”. Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: The International Venue on Practice-centred Computing and the Design of Cooperation Technologies -Demos and Posters, Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies. http://dx.doi.org/10.18420/ecscw2019_d04.

2018

Dickel, Martin, and Claudia Müller. 2018. “Ethnographie-basiertes und partizipatives IT-Design mit älteren Menschen. Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten für die gemeinsame Gestaltungsarbeit im Feld”. FIfF Kommunikation. Zeitschrift für Informatik und Gesellschaft 35 (4): 27-31. https://www.fiff.de/publikationen/fiff-kommunikation/fk-2018/fk-2018-4/fk-2018-4-content/fk-4-18-p27.pdf.
Meurer, Johanna, Claudia Müller, Carla Simone, Ina Wagner, and Volker Wulf. 2018. “Designing for Sustainability: Key Issues of ICT Projects for Ageing at Home”. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 27 (3-6): 495–537. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-018-9317-1.
Müller, Claudia, and Lin Wan. 2018. “Information and Communication Technology Design in a Complex Moral Universe: Ethnography-Based Development of a GPS Monitoring System for Persons Who Wander”. In Socio-Informatics - A Practice-based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artefacts, edited by Volker Wulf, Volkmar Pipek, David Randall, Markus Rohde, Kjeld Schmidt, and Gunnar Stevens, 363–390. Oxford University Press. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198733249.001.0001/oso-9780198733249-chapter-12.
Ogonowski, Corinna, Timo Jakobi, Claudia Müller, and Jan Hess. 2018. “PRAXLABS: A sustainable framework for user-centered ICT development: Cultivating research experiences from Living Labs in the home”. In Socio-Informatics - A Practice-based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artefacts, edited by Volker Wulf, Volkmar Pipek, David Randall, Markus Rohde, Kjeld Schmidt, and Gunnar Stevens, 319–360. Oxford University Press. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198733249.001.0001/oso-9780198733249-chapter-11.

2017

Hornung, Dominik, Claudia Müller, Irina Shklovski, Timo Jakobi, and Volker Wulf. 2017. “Navigating Relationships and Boundaries: Concerns around ICT-uptake for Elderly People”. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’17, 7057–7069. Denver, Colorado, USA: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025859.
Müller, Claudia. 2017. “„Designing for an Ageing Society”: Ergebnisse eines Symposiums im Rahmen der 12. „Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems” (COOP)”. Medien & Altern, no. Heft 10 (Juni 2017): 74–79. http://www.kopaed.de/kopaedshop/?pg=1_10&pid=1066.
Müller, Claudia, Marén Schorch, David Struzek, and Marleen Neumann. 2017. “Technology Probes als Mittel zur Unterstützung der Technik-Aneignung”. In Mensch und Computer 2017: Workshopband, edited by Manuel Burghardt, Raphael Wimmer, Christian Wolff, and Christa Womser-Hacker, 87–93. Regensburg, Germany: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2017-ws02-0318.
Reuter, Christian, Daniel Wiegärtner, and Claudia Müller. 2017. “DIVOA – Unterstützung der älteren Bevölkerung bei Schadenslagen”. In Mensch und Computer 2017: Tagungsband, edited by Manuel Burghardt, Raphael Wimmer, Christian Wolff, and Christa Womser-Hacker, 295–298. Regensburg, Germany: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. https://dx.doi.org/10.18420/muc2017-mci-0352.
Schorch, Marén, Claudia Müller, and Johanna Meurer. 2017. “Cultural Probes: The best way to go for PD in sensitive research settings? A methodological reflexion”. In Mensch und Computer 2017: Workshopband, edited by Manuel Burghardt, Raphael Wimmer, Christian Wolff, and Christa Womser-Hacker, 73–78. Regensburg, Germany: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. https://dx.doi.org/10.18420/muc2017-ws02-0304.
Struzek, David, Marleen Neumann, Claudia Müller, Marén Schorch, and Dominik Hornung. 2017. “Aneignungshilfen für Senioren-Projektpartner – am Beispiel Google Drive”. In Mensch und Computer 2017: Workshopband, edited by Manuel Burghardt, Raphael Wimmer, Christian Wolff, and Christa Womser-Hacker, 249–253. Regensburg, Germany: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. 10.18420/muc2017-mci-0349.
Wiegärtner, Daniel, Christian Reuter, and Claudia Müller. 2017. “Erwartungen der älteren Bevölkerung an IKT für Krisenkommunikation”. In Mensch und Computer 2017: Workshopband, edited by Manuel Burghardt, Raphael Wimmer, Christian Wolff, and Christa Womser-Hacker, 609–614. Regensburg, Germany: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. https://dx.doi.org/10.18420/muc2017-ws17-0416.

2016

Garschall, Markus, Theodor Hamm, Dominik Hornung, Claudia Müller, Katja Neureiter, Marén Schorch, and Lex van Velsen. 2016. “Proceedings of the COOP 2016 Symposium on challenges and experiences in designing for an ageing society. Reflecting on concepts of age(ing) and communication practices”. International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI) 13 (3). https://www.iisi.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/irsi_vol13-iss3_2016.pdf.
Hamidi, Foad, Claudia Müller, Melanie Baljko, Marén Schorch, Myriam Lewkowicz, and Abigale Stangl. 2016. “Engaging with Users and Stakeholders: The Emotional and the Personal”. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Supporting Group Work - GROUP ’16, 453–456. Sanibel Island, Florida, USA: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/2957276.2996292.
Hornung, Dominik, Claudia Müller, Alexander Boden, and Martin Stein. 2016. “Autonomy Support for Elderly People through Everyday Life Gadgets”. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Supporting Group Work - GROUP ’16, 421–424. Sanibel Island, Florida, USA: ACM Press. 10.1145/2957276.2996284.
Müller, Claudia, and Wolfgang Reißmann. 2016. “Technokulturelle Imaginationen als Ansatzpunkte für Participatory Design am Beispiel von „Smart Living”-Szenarien”. Medien & Altern, no. Heft 8 (Juni 2016): 15–31. http://kopaed.de/kopaedshop/?pg=45&pid=1013.
Neureiter, Katja, Claudia Müller, Markus Garschall, Marén Schorch, Lex van Velsen, and Dominik Hornung. 2016. “ Reflecting on concepts of age(ing) and communicating practices”. In Proceedings of the COOP 2016 – Symposium on challenges and experiences in designing for an ageing society, International Reports on Socio-Informatics volume 13 (issue 3) 2016, 5–20. Bonn: IISI – International Institute for Socio-Informatics 2016. http://coop2016.tech-experience.at/.
Wan, Lin, Claudia Müller, Dave Randall, and Volker Wulf. 2016. “Design of A GPS Monitoring System for Dementia Care and its Challenges in Academia-Industry Project”. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 23 (5): 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1145/2963095.